Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1
Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and His Intellectual Circle
The Philosopher King
The Intellectual Circle at the Imperial Court prior to 1402 (Phase I)
The Intellectual Circle at the Imperial Court after 1402 (Phase II)
Chapter 2
The Schools in Constantinople
The School at the Xenon of the Kral
The Patriarchal School of Hagia Sophia
The School at the Monastery of St. John of Stoudios
The School at the Monastery of St. George of Mangana
Private Schools
Chapter 3
The Arrival of the Italian Humanists
Manuel Chrysoloras and the First Contact
The Arrival of the Italian Humanists in Constantinople
Chapter 4
The Patriarchal School
The Situation before the Fifteenth Century
The Patriarchal School during Manuel II Palaiologoss Reign (13911425)
The Period before the Fall of 1453
The Reinstitution of the Patriarchal School in Ottoman Constantinople: The Library and the Scriptorium of Sultan Mehmed II
Part II
Chapter 5
The Teaching of Trivium and Quadrivium
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